12 thoughts on “2019 Russian Championships Results”

She’s just coming back from back surgery, which is a huge thing to come back from. It’s probably best for her to keep herself in one piece this year and push hard going into the Olympic season. I’d imagine that beam and floor will likely be the events to come back more quickly, while vault will be a work in progress considering it was her weakest pre-injury piece and bars being the hardest to get back to for obvious reasons. I’m not sure if inbars would be a safe option for her anymore.

I know they have gone out of style but I think that gymnasts such as Eremina and Locklear should at least consider Toe on/Stalder 1.5s. Considering they both are E level skills and can both be performed into jaegers, I think they should try them.
Eg. For Eremina:
Toe on 3/2 + Piked Jaeger
Church + Pak + Chow + Stalder 1/1 + Tkatchev
Full in
(6.2 D)

Russian Champs are the best thing ever! Nabs is still around. Seda and Polina are still alive. Paseka is still winning vault with lots of metal in her spine. And all hail Queen Aliya. The old guard is hanging on for everything they have. Good for them.

The atmosphere at Russian Champs is totally different from US Nationals. The American girls look nervous and perform as if their lives depend on it. The Russian girls look like they are doing the “last one, best one” routine at a regular gym workout. It feels more “training camp” than national championships. Maybe this competition really doesn’t matter for the Russian girls.

They almost always change it at least twice before the competition. Last year was the first time in a while that they stuck with the original team. Klimenko and Mustafina have AA World Cup assignments and I think Schekoldina and a couple others have been assigned to DTB at Stuttgart. And then on top of that they gave verifications before leaving, so there’s a lot of competitions for the girls not on the initial team to get a spot.

Russia is complete crap right now: low difficulty, bad execution, horrible consistency, and are not even artistic. All the new girls are rather bland and have no fair — there is no one like Komova or old Mustafina. Eremina was a promise, but her too fragile body let her down. Do you realize that American college routines are more difficult and consistent than Russian ELITE routines? The sport is dead.